1893–94 season | |
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Chairman | Roland Geldner |
First team coach |
Ferdinand Isler (as team captain) |
Ground | Landhof, Basel |
No championship this year | n/a [note League 1] |
Top goalscorer | League: n/a All: Wilhelm Glaser (1) H. Siegrist (1) |
Average home league attendance | n/a |
FC Basel was started by an advertisement placed by Roland Geldner in the 12 November 1893 edition of the Basler national newspaper, requesting that a football team be formed and that anyone who wished to join should meet up the following Wednesday at 8:15 in the restaurant Schuhmachern-Zunft. Eleven men attended the meeting, generally from the academic community, founding Fussball Club Basel on 15 November 1893. All of them had spent some time in England and during that time found their way into football. [1]
(Source: the documentation to the club's 50th anniversary) [2]
Apart from Abderhalden, Born, Schmoll and Strub, they were all members of the Basel rowing club. The club colors red and blue were chosen out of affection for the rowing clubs' colours.
Eleven days after the club was founded the first game took place. Not much has been passed down from the first game that the FCB played on 26 November 1893. The club members met at the Landhof and played a game among themselves. It is considered as the first, but unofficial, game of FC Basel. The names of the players of both teams were recorded at that time, which can also be read in the annals of FC Basel, and the result was also passed on for posterity, Team 1: with the brothers Roland, Max and Georges Geldner, Ferdinand Isler, Max Born, Josy Ebinger and Fritz Schäublin, beat Team 2: with John Tollmann, Adolf Hintermann, Wilhelm Glaser, Richard Strub, Mario Arbini, Emil Abderhalden, Lewis Gough and Jean Grieder by seven goals to two. At a meeting of the club's leading commission it is said that Isler had very good goal scoring tactics. [3]
Two weeks after this internal training match, the real premiere took place. Ferdinand Isler was selected as the team's first captain. The first football match that the club held was on 10 December against the football team of the club RTV/Realschüler-Turnverein (secondary school student gymnastics club). FCB won two goals to nil, the goal scorers were Glaser and Siegrist. [4] [5]
The next match was held six months later. Charles Volderauer, who as businessman had good connections, used them from the very beginning. As early as June 1894, he organised the journey to visit Strassburger FV. The team travelled by train to Strasbourg and played their first match against a foreign team, which ended with a 0–8 defeat. [6]
Up until the club's AGM on 31 August 1994 a total of 31 footballers had joined the team since the first day, six members had since left and so they had 25 active footballers. [7]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Win Loss
10 December 1893 Friendly | Basel | 2 – 0 | RTV Basel | Landhof, Basel |
10:40 |
Glaser (1:0) Siegrist (2:0) |
Summary |
17 June 1894 Friendly | Strassburger FV | 8 – 0 | Basel | Strassburg |
15:00 | Summary |
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(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)
1893–94 season | |
---|---|
Chairman | Roland Geldner |
First team coach |
Ferdinand Isler (as team captain) |
Ground | Landhof, Basel |
No championship this year | n/a [note League 1] |
Top goalscorer | League: n/a All: Wilhelm Glaser (1) H. Siegrist (1) |
Average home league attendance | n/a |
FC Basel was started by an advertisement placed by Roland Geldner in the 12 November 1893 edition of the Basler national newspaper, requesting that a football team be formed and that anyone who wished to join should meet up the following Wednesday at 8:15 in the restaurant Schuhmachern-Zunft. Eleven men attended the meeting, generally from the academic community, founding Fussball Club Basel on 15 November 1893. All of them had spent some time in England and during that time found their way into football. [1]
(Source: the documentation to the club's 50th anniversary) [2]
Apart from Abderhalden, Born, Schmoll and Strub, they were all members of the Basel rowing club. The club colors red and blue were chosen out of affection for the rowing clubs' colours.
Eleven days after the club was founded the first game took place. Not much has been passed down from the first game that the FCB played on 26 November 1893. The club members met at the Landhof and played a game among themselves. It is considered as the first, but unofficial, game of FC Basel. The names of the players of both teams were recorded at that time, which can also be read in the annals of FC Basel, and the result was also passed on for posterity, Team 1: with the brothers Roland, Max and Georges Geldner, Ferdinand Isler, Max Born, Josy Ebinger and Fritz Schäublin, beat Team 2: with John Tollmann, Adolf Hintermann, Wilhelm Glaser, Richard Strub, Mario Arbini, Emil Abderhalden, Lewis Gough and Jean Grieder by seven goals to two. At a meeting of the club's leading commission it is said that Isler had very good goal scoring tactics. [3]
Two weeks after this internal training match, the real premiere took place. Ferdinand Isler was selected as the team's first captain. The first football match that the club held was on 10 December against the football team of the club RTV/Realschüler-Turnverein (secondary school student gymnastics club). FCB won two goals to nil, the goal scorers were Glaser and Siegrist. [4] [5]
The next match was held six months later. Charles Volderauer, who as businessman had good connections, used them from the very beginning. As early as June 1894, he organised the journey to visit Strassburger FV. The team travelled by train to Strasbourg and played their first match against a foreign team, which ended with a 0–8 defeat. [6]
Up until the club's AGM on 31 August 1994 a total of 31 footballers had joined the team since the first day, six members had since left and so they had 25 active footballers. [7]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
|
|
Win Loss
10 December 1893 Friendly | Basel | 2 – 0 | RTV Basel | Landhof, Basel |
10:40 |
Glaser (1:0) Siegrist (2:0) |
Summary |
17 June 1894 Friendly | Strassburger FV | 8 – 0 | Basel | Strassburg |
15:00 | Summary |
{{
cite web}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (
link)
(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)